Pat the rooster helps celebrate Farm Days

NATIONAL CITY: The public is invited to celebrate Farm Days from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Stein Family Farm, 1808 F Ave., National City.

There will be farm games and displays of washboard laundry, blacksmithing and potato planting. Visitors can see Victorian-era farm objects and a tractor parade, and tour the home. They also can meet Pat the rooster.

A donation is requested.

For information, call (619) 477-4113. –J.Z.

Administrators moved around to new schools

CHULA VISTA: The Sweetwater Union High School District board authorized more than $2 million in spending cuts by eliminating several high-ranking positions in the headquarters serving 42,000 seventh-through-12th-grade students.

Assistant superintendents Karen Janney and Dianna Carberry have been reassigned as principals. Carberry will lead Eastlake High School. Janney will run National City Middle School.

The list of personnel moves eliminated more than 20 positions that carried six-figure salaries and replaced them with at least 12 positions paying $100,000 or more.

The school board last week approved issuing tentative layoff notices to 109 teachers and counselors in its search for $11.6 million in spending cuts to balance the budget for the year that begins July 1.

With Janney's arrival at National City Middle, Lee Romero has transferred to become principal of Montgomery High School, displacing Sam Montes, who is now a teacher on special assignment in the district office. Carberry replaces Mary Lawlor, who will return to Hilltop High School as assistant principal. –C.M.

Funding received to repair Max Field

CHULA VISTA: The Building Industry Association has donated funds for improvements to the South Bay Little League/Pony League Max Field, 1500 Max Ave.

“With the generous help of (Building Industry Association) Cares for Kids we will secure much needed repairs to staircases, roofs and backstops at Max Field,” Chula Vista council member Steve Castaneda said in a statement. Cares for Kids will also give hundreds of Padre tickets to the South Bay leagues.

Castaneda presented Building Industry Association Cares for Kids gifts to South Bay Little League/Pony League on opening day, March 7. –D.B.

Veterans home members to get free use of pool

CHULA VISTA: The South Bay Family YMCA will begin offering free use of its pool to members of the Chula Vista Veterans Home.

At 9 a.m. Tuesday the South Bay Family YMCA, at 1201 Paseo Magda, will host members of the veterans home for a morning of swimming, exercise and refreshments. All are welcome to attend.

The event kicks off a partnership in which the YMCA will receive the veterans free Tuesday mornings from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and Thursday afternoons from noon to 2 p.m. Information: (619) 421-8805 or southbay.ymca.org. –D.B.

Staff writers David Berlin, Chris Moran and Janine ZÚñiga contributed to this report.